1 Kings 11:29

at that time i.e. While the building-works at the Millo and the completion of the wall was in progress.

Ahijah the Shilonite This prophet, whose home was in Shiloh (see 1 Kings 14:2), is mentioned in connexion with this prophecy to Jeroboam and again when Jeroboam has become king, and sends his wife to inquire of the prophet about the issue of his child's sickness. A writing of his is spoken of in 2 Chronicles 9:29 as -the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite". This may have contained other prophecies beside those which have been preserved to us. He was evidently a person of much importance and influence during this and the following reign.

found him in the way Here the LXX. adds -and he drew him aside out of the way": an addition which may have been made to explain how it came to pass, as is said immediately, that -they two were alone in the field."

and he had clad himself i.e. Ahijah had done so. The R.V. following the LXX. inserts the proper name in italics to make the sense clearer in the English.